As psychoanalysts, we are concerned with translation of what we do not know into something that can become known, thought of and communicated. The phenomenon of translation reminds us of the impossibility of capturing the experience of the author, while still attempting to capture their meaning. Perhaps this is because words follow the logic of containment, and experience struggles with excess and the impulse toward escalation. This is particularly true of psychoanalytic dialogue and the necessary translation of the other in constructing and re-constructing self/other experience. This essay addresses translation as transgressive: of the other, of language, of identity, of subjectivity and of meaning itself. It further views such transgressions as inevitable and as potential catalysts for creative symbolization.